All kung fu movies (including martial arts) in the modern era cannot avoid a fatal core problem: how to deal with technology, to put it bluntly, how to deal with guns, no matter how powerful the magic is, I can kill you with one shot. There is a wonderful irony in Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark 1", in which a Middle Eastern samurai plays with a knife for a long time, and is knocked down by Dr. Jones with one shot.
Regarding this issue, several recent kung fu movies have made their own wonderful treatments. Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" answered this question with one shot. The evil spirit of fire cloud shot himself in the head and instantly intercepted the bullet. Martial arts, only fast is not broken. Zhou Xingchi is really amazing, I admire it. When it came to "Ip Man", a gentleman's principle was adopted. Ip Man was the master, and his opponents were basically well-mannered gentlemen (whether Japanese or foreigners). In the end, they solved the problem in the ring, and the problem of the gun was cleverly solved. avoided.
The ambition of the "Tai Chi" movie is obviously bigger, he is trying to solve the problem of kung fu PK guns. On the one hand, the film shows the power and profoundness of Tai Chi (Kung Fu), and on the other hand, it shows the irreversibility of technological progress. Well, the question has arisen. For the audience, he needs a clear answer, whether it is magic or gun technology. The movie suffers from schizophrenia at this point.
In the real world, anyone with a bit of common sense understands that kung fu can't do guns and guns. (I think of Zhou Xingchi again. In "Domestic 007", someone was beaten to death by a bazooka. Mr. Zhou knows this reality too well. )
In the dramatic environment of the movie, if you successfully tell me that magic is very powerful, so powerful that it can defeat guns, there is actually no problem. Your final boss is not guns, but masters of kung fu, such as Huoyun in "Kung Fu" Cthulhu. But the worst thing is that in "Tai Chi", the villain of the movie is actually technology, and Comrade Eddie Peng is the spokesperson. So in the end, whether the technology is powerful or the kung fu is powerful, on this point, the film creators are a bit schizophrenic, and they are a little vague themselves.
After watching the two movies, I learned that Leung Ka Fai actually has two sons, one is a geek who learns Tai Chi, and the other is Feng Shaofeng, who is engaged in technology. On the surface, it seems that kung fu is better than guns, but in the crucial battle, Feng Shaofeng used technology to save the freak. Liang Jiahui also acknowledged the status of Feng Shaofeng's son. This is the attitude of the main creators, telling the audience that technology is still very useful and that he is the future direction. Seeing this, as an audience, I started to feel unhappy. Originally, the victory of kung fu over technology in the movie is a kind of hypnosis, a kind of Ah Q spirit of national inferiority mentality. I just satisfied the coolness of kung fu and technology, and you shook me again. Wake up and even slap me back into the real world and tell me that technology is the future. Are you entertaining me or educating me, Mr. Chen Guofu and Mr. Feng Delun, have you discussed it clearly? Let’s shoot again.
If the kung fu is great, then let Tai Chi fight all the way to the end. The bad guys are all high-tech people. Don't come to help kung fu when technology appears. Isn't this showing weakness. In fact, to put it bluntly, kung fu fighting technology is not good-looking, guns and guns are all finalized things, and kung fu is to show the beauty of body movements. nice.
What splits the movie is that the biggest villain is technology, but the highlight of the fight lies in kung fu. How can such a movie satisfy the audience? What's more, the main creators of the movie did not deny technology, but were very ambiguous. . The villain of Jurassic Park is evil technology, and dinosaurs are the representative of technology. It is brutal and entertaining.
I heard that there will be three more filmings for the movie. It seems that Eddie Peng is going to become a Frankenstein. I ask the creators to make up their minds and completely characterize technology as the villains of all evils, and stop showing the slightest sympathy. Let me, Chinese magic, overcome evil technology, stand on the top of the world, and be proud of our people.
Of course, in the movie.
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